HONEY DIJON: DAY & NIGHT is listed for OCT 10 2026 at Knockdown Center in NEW YORK CITY. The advertised program is categorized as house, with a day + night format. Explore the announced artists and their musical backgrounds below before planning your visit.
For electronic-music fans following house, this listing brings together the available artist, venue and event details in one place. Doors, entry requirements and any changes should be confirmed against the organizer's event-specific announcement before traveling.
Artist spotlight: Honey Dijon's story begins in Chicago, where house wasn't a nostalgic genre name. It was the sound being invented around her. She learned from the city's DJ culture, with figures including Derrick Carter and Mark Farina helping shape her approach, before carrying those instincts into New York clubs and an international career. A Honey Dijon set draws on the full room: disco, house, the unexpected record that changes the mood without breaking the groove. Her records tell another part of the story. The Best of Both Worlds arrived in 2017, Black Girl Magic followed in 2022, and her production work contributed to Beyoncé's Renaissance. Her influence also reaches fashion, where the connections between dance floors and self-expression are impossible to miss. The interesting question isn't whether house music belongs in the mainstream. It's who remembers the communities that built it once the lights get brighter.
Plan your visit
Date
OCT 10 (2026)
City
NEW YORK CITY
Venue
Knockdown Center
Music
HOUSE
Format
DAY + NIGHT
Age policy
Check with organizer
Doors / set times
Not announced in the verified record
Artists & lineup
Meet the announced artists and explore their music, past work and performance backgrounds.
Honey Dijon's story begins in Chicago, where house wasn't a nostalgic genre name. It was the sound being invented around her. She learned from the city's DJ culture, with figures including Derrick Carter and Mark Farina helping shape her approach, before carrying those instincts into New York clubs and an international career. A Honey Dijon set draws on the full room: disco, house, the unexpected record that changes the mood without breaking the groove. Her records tell another part of the story. The Best of Both Worlds arrived in 2017, Black Girl Magic followed in 2022, and her production work contributed to Beyoncé's Renaissance. Her influence also reaches fashion, where the connections between dance floors and self-expression are impossible to miss. The interesting question isn't whether house music belongs in the mainstream. It's who remembers the communities that built it once the lights get brighter.
Before somebody can play a great house record, another person has to believe in it enough to release it. Luke Solomon has spent decades doing both jobs. The London DJ and producer co-founded Classic Music Company with Derrick Carter in the mid-1990s, creating a transatlantic meeting point for adventurous Chicago and British house. With Justin Harris he also built the Freaks project and Music for Freaks label, while later work with Defected broadened his behind-the-scenes role. The Classic catalog helped introduce tracks from DJ Sneak, Matthew Herbert and other distinctive producers. It's an unusual career because the biggest influence may be the records he helped other people make.
Anastazja is an electronic-music artist and DJ appearing in The DJ Hangout Shows database. This profile connects verified upcoming appearances, venues and genre context as the database expands.
The best house DJs know that a club record may be connected to a disco tune, a jazz break or a soul vocal that predates the music industry’s current genre labels. Derrick Carter became one of Chicago’s internationally respected selectors by making those connections feel natural. His performances move through the history of dance music without losing the pulse of a working room.
Carter began making records during the early years of Chicago house. His single Love Me Right appeared in 1987, followed by releases under names including Mood and Sound Patrol. Rather than define himself by one studio identity, he continued experimenting while Chicago’s nightlife and record labels changed around him.
The 1990s brought records and projects that did not fit a simple promotional description. His Sound Patrol work included an album and a live orchestra project, while he also produced singles and mixed albums for fans who wanted to hear more than a predictable sequence of hits. His DJ style and production history became intertwined with the return of international attention to Chicago house.
Carter’s career is also a reminder that music scenes experience quiet periods and reversals. Public attention moves elsewhere, venues close and labels take different paths, but the people who love the records keep selecting, producing and booking. That persistence is as much a part of dance history as any celebrated moment of commercial success.
Carter and London DJ Luke Solomon founded Classic Music Company in 1994. The label launched with an unusually playful catalog system, numbering releases down from 100 toward zero. From the start it presented house music as a living, experimental conversation rather than a rigid formula. That approach attracted artists from multiple generations and scenes.
Classic later marked its 30th anniversary with a book and three-part vinyl collection released in 2025. The project documents the people and artwork behind a sustained label identity. It is an example of how two producers can turn shared taste into a platform that matters to other artists long after their initial records have left the record-store shelves.
In a Resident Advisor interview, Carter reflected on his dislike of being pigeonholed and on how he and Solomon wanted to make their own rules. That instinct is not an excuse for sloppy mixing or playing without regard for an audience. It is a case for knowing music deeply enough to surprise the room while keeping everyone engaged.
Young DJs studying Chicago house should listen for that approach rather than simply copy the familiar drum sounds. Records only become a memorable night through timing, transitions and individual imagination. Carter’s working life shows what can happen when a selector treats the crowd as intelligent and a music label as an invitation to keep discovering.
The show is scheduled for Knockdown Center in NEW YORK CITY. Visit the venue profile for further venue context where available. Venue address, accessibility, transport and entry policies should be checked with the venue or event promoter.
